Wind slab
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- Above treeline
Fresh wind slabs require caution.
Fresh wind slabs require caution.
The fresh wind slabs can be released by a single winter sport participant in all aspects above the tree line. Caution is to be exercised adjacent to ridgelines, as well as in gullies and bowls, and behind abrupt changes in the terrain. Wind slabs are to be avoided especially in terrain where there is a danger of falling.
The small wind slabs are lying on the unfavourable surface of an old snowpack in particular on very steep shady slopes. Hardly any weak layers exist in the old snowpack.
Fresh wind slabs are to be evaluated with care and prudence in particular in very steep terrain.
Bulletin data: Meteotrentino, avalanche.report (CC BY 4.0)